What Skills Do You Need to be a Textile Designer?

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TradersDNA

Textile design is a discipline that involves ideation, creation and modification of designs, textures, illustrations and patterns for knitted, woven, dyed, embroidered or printed fabric. Two major areas of textiles are:

  • Interiors-upholstery, soft furnishings, and carpets
  • Fashion fabrics
  • Automotive Fabrics

Basis the different methods utilized in production; Textile design can be further broken down into three major disciplines:

  • Printed textile design
  • Woven textile design
  • Mixed media textile design

Required Skills

  • Visualization, Artistic & Creative skills: Should be able analyze the client brief and accordingly come up with relevant designs and patterns.
  • Should have a basic understanding of colours, fabrics and materials
  • Attention to detail
  • Should have knowledge of dyes, texture, patterns and yarns
  • Organizational and planning skills
  • Excellent communication skills besides presentation and negotiation skills
  • Ability to work in a team
  • Time Management skills & capability to work under pressure besides adhering to deadlines
  • Good networking skills to manage not only clients but teams in other departments as well
  • Should have problem solving approach
  • Should have interest in fashion & textile designing besides being up to date with the ensuing fashion trends and production processes & techniques.
  • Competencies in use of CAD and other software programs
  • Business skills
  • Should have the pulse of the market and must be able to foresee new trends
  • Adequate knowledge about characteristics of different textile materials

Responsibilities

  • Understanding the client brief and coming up with relevant sketches of designs and samples for presentation
  • Liaising with clients, different departments like technical, marketing, buying etc.
  • Analyzing and approving the final product
  • Evaluating the production standards
  • Adept at using computer-aided design (CAD) and other using specialist software programs to develop range of designs
  • Experimenting with varied colours, patterns, textures and fabrics
  • Keeping abreast with latest trends, design knowledge, properties of dyes, different materials, consumer taste, innovations in production techniques and textile technology
  • Ensuring timely completion of projects
  • Visiting trade fairs, markets and manufacturers for design inspirations
  • Sourcing appropriate fabrics and other materials
  • Supervising production

Textile design courses in Bangalore:

In order to be a part of this glamourous and lucrative field, you should join a college that offers UG in Textile design courses in Bangalore and have the following features:

  • Courses must offerholistic perspective in Textile Designing weaving, knitting, embroidery, print and mixed media
  • College must offer certification recognized at both domestic and international level.
  • Market-oriented understanding besides updated technical knowledge about Textile Design must be offered by the college.
  • Exposure to students through live projects, internships and interaction with Industry Experts
  • Competencies in updated software’s like CAD etc.
  • Participation in International events and competitions, thus helping student’s build strong portfolio

Why Textile design courses in Bangalore?

Textile industry is a flourishing industry that provides huge opportunities especially in Bangalore due to the following reasons:

  • Bangalore, the capital of Karnataka state, is known as the garment capital of India.
  • Karnataka accounts for 20% of garments production of the country.
  • Karnataka, also being the largest producer of mulbary silk in the country, accounts for 65% share
  • Karnataka also grows abundant cotton and thus produces 20 lakh bales of cotton annually.
  • As per ‘New Textile & Garment Policy 2019-2024’, Karnataka, it aims to create over 5 lakh jobs and attract ₹10,000 crore investments.

So don’t hold back and enrol for textile design to take your skills to the next level.

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